If there was such a thing as a VR headset war akin to the console war, it looks like PlayStation VR would be winning it. For the first time, Sony has released sales numbers for their first foray into the VR hardware market, revealing that 915,000 PSVR headsets have been purchased as of February 19th.
In comparison, the top competitors to PSVR, the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive are estimated to have sold 243,000 and 420,000 units by the end of last year, respectively. Neither Oculus nor HTC have revealed their official sales numbers, with those figures coming from the SuperData Research firm.
In an interview with The New York Times, Andrew House, global chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said that he may have been a bit too cautious with production numbers of the PlayStation VR, which ended up being a scarce commodity in stores:
